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Resource Consents for Minor Dwellings in the Auckland City District Plan

By on July 14, 2010 in Blog, District Plan, Resource Consent

The Auckland region is growing at such a fast rate that it is estimated in approximately twenty years the region will have to accommodate an increase in population equal to the size of Wellington within its boundaries. Regional policies and strategies seek to accommodate this growth mostly within existing urban areas, with only a small portion of this growth to be accommodated within Greenfield developments. Within the existing urban areas, growth is to be concentrated in intensified areas. However, these policies and strategies neglect to consider the role that traditional suburban areas could play in accommodating growth. Growth in such areas could be accommodated by obtaining resource consent for minor dwellings/units commonly known as ‘granny flats’.

The Auckland City: Growth Management Strategy (December 2003) seeks to fulfil the objectives of the regions Growth Management Strategy and Regional Policy Statement by providing for growth within high density centres and corridors such as Newmarket, Remuera, Ellerslie, Mt Albert, Panmure, Mt Wellington Quarry, Onehunga, Pt Chevalier and Sylvia Park. These areas are known as the ‘areas of change’.
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Why do I need to keep obtaining Certificates of Title?

By on July 13, 2010 in Blog, Building Consent, Certificate of Title, Resource Consent

This post explains why you can not simply use the title you have lying around as part of your application for building or resource consent:

Even though you will have usually received a certificate of title for a property when the property was purchased, you will still require a new title if you later decide to apply for building consent and/or resource consent to undertake alterations or development works such as:

  • Constructing a new building;
  • Building a deck;
  • Extending an existing dwelling; or
  • Converting floor space to a different use.

The reason for this is that titles have a date of issue on them, and any application for consent, for either building or resource consent will require a certificate of title that has has been issued recently, usually this means a title that has been issued within the previous three months from the date of lodging the application at council. To check the date of issue for your title, look on the bottom right hand corner of the title document as shown in the picture below:

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